New Work
Tom Badley
January 9th to February 6th, 2010
New Work
Tom Badley
One moment taken from an intentional sequence of many becomes accidental. One accident implies the intent of many sequential moments.
Adapted from Seamless Breakage, 2009
Tenderpixel is pleased to present new work by Tom Badley. Badley seeks to derive experimental new forms from an appropriative impulse. His latest creation represents his continued interest in the emblem of a 'one key piano'. Resisting the traditional structural tension of contemporary 'sculpture', Badley's creation is more akin to a scientific equation, consecrated as a three-dimensional model. To what formula does it propose an answer to? Perhaps, it can be read as the distillation of decoration and multitude, to a single point that can be repeated like a mantra. As a result, the meaning of a single note reverberates over time, as each urge to repeat dissolves abstraction, and amplifies intent. Much like an out-of-place-artifact, the work becomes a thought-machine of the future, waiting to be activated by some undiscovered mental process.
Tom Badley is fascinated by themes of catastrophe and fragmentation. In particular, he is concerned with investigating the idea of 'Seamless Breakage': the paradoxical processes whereby things avert death through their own forms of auto-destruction, as both naturally occuring and an important aspect of our unique historical moment. His practice centres about notions of intentionality, bricolage, knowledge and destruction. Similarly, Badley's fragmentary video pieces utilize found material from the Internet. Mining thousands of appropriated videos, this content is cut - through highly labour intensive editing techniques - to produce music, as as a series of audio/visual metaphors.
Tom Badley was born in 1985 in Aylesbury, England. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Cooper Union School in New York.
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